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{{Short description|Indian political scientist (born 1951)}}
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'''Sanjib Baruah''' is an Indian professor of Political Studies at [[Bard College]] in New York,<ref>{{Cite web|date=7 November 2021|title=Sanjib Baruah|url=https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=101|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327042241/https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=101|archive-date=27 March 2021|access-date=7 November 2021}}</ref> and an author and commentator specializing in the politics of [[Northeast India]]. His books include ''India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality'', ''Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India'', and ''[[In the Name of the Nation|In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast]]''.

== Early life and career ==
Baruah was born in 1951 in [[Shillong]], which was then the capital of [[Assam]].{{sfn|Baruah|Rebecca|2008|loc=0m}}{{efn|[[Shillong]] was the capital of [[undivided Assam]] until 21 January 1972 when it became part of the new state of [[Meghalaya]]; the redefined start of Assam forming its capital at [[Dispur]] in [[Guwahati]].}}

Baruah obtained his Bachelor of Arts from [[Cotton College, Guwahati]], Assam.<ref name="BardBio"/> He went on to complete his Master of Arts from the [[Delhi University|University of Delhi]].<ref name="BardBio">{{Cite web|title=Sanjib Baruah — Professor of Political Studies|website=Bard College|url=https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=101|access-date=27 January 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030103240/http://www.bard.edu:80/faculty/details/?id=101 |archive-date=2017-10-30 }}</ref> He has said the experience of [[New Delhi]] and its intellectual and political life had a profound impact on him.{{sfn|Baruah|Rebecca|2008|loc=6m}}

From 1985 to 1987 Sanjib Baruah worked as an Associate of Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the [[University of Chicago]], the institution that awarded him his PhD.<ref name="BardBio"/> He said at interview that his research into the Northeast India topic only really began some time after he had completed his PhD.{{sfn|Baruah|Rebecca|2008|loc=4m 35s}}

Baruah has been serving as a professor at [[Bard College]] in [[New York (state)|New York state]]. Since 1989 Sanjib Baruah was a research associate at South Asia Center at [[Syracuse University]].<ref name="BardBio"/>

Baruah also holds a concurrent position as Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rebecca Schiel|first=Jonathan Powell|date=9 September 2020|title=IC Conference Session 2|url=https://sciences.ucf.edu/politics/ucf_section/ic-conference-session-2/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207235053/https://sciences.ucf.edu/politics/ucf_section/ic-conference-session-2/|archive-date=7 December 2021|access-date=8 December 2021|website=[[University of Central Florida]]}}</ref>

== Selected works ==
===Books===
* {{Cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|year=1999|title=India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality |publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania Press]]|isbn=9780812234916 |author-mask=0|ref=none}}<ref name="Asia Society">{{cite web |last1=Shaikh |first1=Nermeen |title=Interview with Sanjib Baruah |url=https://asiasociety.org/interview-sanjib-baruah |website=Asia Society |access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="Hauser 1999">{{cite news |last1=Hauser |first1=Walter |title=Future Imperfect |url=https://asianstudies.github.io/area-studies/SouthAsia/Misc/Sss/whfuture99.html |access-date=26 January 2022 |work=[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]] |date=October 29, 1999}}</ref><ref name="Hazarika 1999">{{cite news |last1=Hazarika |first1=Sanjoy |title=Book review: Sanjib Baruah's 'India Against Itself' |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/19990913-book-review-of-india-against-itself-by-sanjib-baruah-824260-1999-09-13 |access-date=26 January 2022 |work=[[India Today]] |date=September 13, 1999}}</ref><ref name="Chadda 2000">{{cite journal |last1=Chadda |first1=Maya |title=Reviewed Work: India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality by Sanjib Baruah |journal=[[Political Science Quarterly]] |date=Summer 2000 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=320–322 |doi=10.2307/2657927 |jstor=2657927 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2657927 |access-date=27 January 2022|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="Banerjee 2000">{{cite journal |last1=Banerjee |first1=Sikata |title=Reviewed Works: India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality by Sanjib Baruah; Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism, and Development in Contemporary India by Niraja Gopal Jayal; Development and Democracy in India by Shalendra D. Sharma |journal=[[The American Political Science Review]] |date=September 2000 |volume=94 |issue=3 |pages=732–734 |doi=10.2307/2585874 |jstor=2585874 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2585874 |access-date=27 January 2022|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* {{cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|date=2012|title=Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India |orig-year=2005|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|oclc=1120638444 |author-mask=0|ref=none}}<ref name="Wright Jr. 2008">{{cite journal |last1=Wright Jr. |first1=Theodore P. |title=Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India. By Sanjib Baruah. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. |journal=[[Perspectives on Politics]] |date=18 August 2008 |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=616–617 |doi=10.1017/S1537592708081577 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/durable-disorder-understanding-the-politics-of-northeast-india-by-sanjib-baruah-new-york-oxford-university-press-2005-286p-3500-cloth-2495-paper/C350C85FE9468ED576554929EFB379CF |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=American Political Science Association|s2cid=145323279 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="Cameron 2007">{{cite journal |last1=Cameron |first1=John |title=Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah. |journal=[[Development and Change]] |date=January 1, 2007 |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=576–578|doi=10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00423_16.x }} - via ''EBSCOhost''</ref><ref name="Saikia 2006">{{cite journal |last1=Saikia |first1=Yasmin |title=Reviewed Work: Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah |journal=[[The Journal of Asian Studies]] |date=August 2006 |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=636–638 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25076105 |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=Association for Asian Studies|doi=10.1017/S0021911806001379 |jstor=25076105 |s2cid=153861644 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="Corbridge 2005">{{cite journal |last1=Corbridge |first1=Stuart |title=Reviewed Work: Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah |journal=[[Political Science Quarterly]] |date=Winter 2005 |volume=120 |issue=4 |pages=726–727 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20202639 |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=The Academy of Political Science|doi=10.1002/j.1538-165X.2005.tb01456.x |jstor=20202639 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="Chandra 2007">{{cite journal |last1=Chandra |first1=Sudhir |title=Understanding the Problem of Northeast India. |journal=India Review |date=March 2007 |volume=6 |issue=1|pages=46–56 |doi=10.1080/14736480601172683 |s2cid=154050009 }} - via ''EBSCOhost''</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Phanjoubam|first=Pradip|title=Review of Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of North-East India, by S. Baruah|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4416301|journal=[[Economic and Political Weekly]]|volume=40|pages=941–943|jstor=4416301}}</ref>
* {{Cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|year=2007|title=Postfrontier blues: toward a new policy framework for Northeast India |series=Policy studies|publisher=East-West Center Washington|isbn=9781932728606|author-mask=0|ref=none}}
* {{Cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|year=2009|title=Beyond Counterinsurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India |orig-year=2009|oclc=775416874|location=New York; New Delhi|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198078975 |author-mask=0|ref=none}}<ref name="McDuie-Ra 2011">{{cite journal |last1=McDuie-Ra |first1=Duncan |title=Reviewed Work: Beyond Counter-Insurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah |journal=[[The Journal of Asian Studies]] |date=August 2011 |volume=70 |issue=3 |pages=861–863 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41302433 |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=Association for Asian Studies|doi=10.1017/S002191181100132X |jstor=41302433 |s2cid=162798780 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sirnate |first1=Vasundhara |title=Reviewed Work: Beyond Counter-Insurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah |journal=[[Journal of Peace Research]] |date=September 2009 |volume=46 |issue=5 |page=719 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25654467 |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=Sage Publications, Inc.|jstor=25654467 }}</ref>
* {{Cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|year=2012|title=Ethnonationalism in India: A Reader |location=New Delhi|publisher=Oxford University Press|series=Critical issues in Indian politics|oclc=930806555|author-mask=0|ref=none}}<ref name="Viplav 2010">{{cite journal |last1=Viplav |title=Reviewed Work: Ethnonationalism in lndia: A Reader by Sanjib Baruah |journal=The Indian Journal of Political Science |date=April 2010 |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=689–691 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42753729 |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=Indian Political Science Association|jstor=42753729 }}</ref>
* {{Cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|year=2020|title=[[In the Name of the Nation]] |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]]|isbn=9781503611290|author-mask=0|ref=none}}

===Journals===
* {{cite journal|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|date=1 November 2003|title=Nationalizing Space: Cosmetic Federalism and the Politics of Development in Northeast India|journal=Development and Change|volume=34|issue=5|pages=915–939|publisher=Estados Unidos : Institute of Social Studies|doi=10.1111/j.1467-7660.2003.00334.x|oclc=926308153|ref=none|doi-access=free}}

===Interviews and commentaries===
Baruah has been sought for commentaries and interviews over a wide range of publications including: [[Time (magazine)|''Time Magazine'']];<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Bagri|first=Neha Thirani|date=5 September 2021|title=India's Anti-Immigrant Crackdown Has Torn Apart Families and Locked Up Hundreds. 1.9 Million People Fear They Could Be Next|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|url=https://time.com/6092299/india-anti-immigrant-crackdown-assam/|access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'';<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Singh|first1=Karan Deep|last2=Baruah|first2=Bondita|date=17 October 2021|title=Amid Flames and Gunfire, They Were Evicted From Where They Called Home|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/world/asia/india-assam-muslim-evictions.html|access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> ''[[Times of India]]'';<ref>{{Cite news|last=Choudhury|first=Sushmita|date=6 December 2021|title=What is AFSPA and why is it controversial?|work=[[Times of India]]|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/what-is-afspa-and-why-is-it-controversial/articleshow/88126265.cms|access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> ''[[The Statesman (India)]]'';<ref>{{Cite news|last=Chowdhury|first=Prasenjit|date=20 December 2021|title=Of outrageous fortune|work=[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/opinion/of-outrageous-fortune-1503031682.html|access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> ''[[TRT World]]'';<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bagchi|first=Suvojit|date=11 August 2021|title=Unrest in India's northeastern frontier may morph into a big problem|work=[[TRT World]]|url=https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/unrest-in-india-s-northeastern-frontier-may-morph-into-a-big-problem-49109|access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> ''[[The Indian Express]]'';<ref>{{Cite news|last=Agarwala|first=Tora|date=28 September 2021|title=Explained: Assam's conflict over land|work=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/assam-sipajhar-eviction-drive-violence-police-civilians-protests-7536183/|access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> ''[[Scroll.in]]'';<ref>{{Cite news|last=Saikia|first=Arunabh|date=15 March 2021|title=In Assamese heartland, those who fought BJP's citizenship law are now voting for 'development'|work=[[Scroll.in]]|url=https://scroll.in/article/989524/in-assamese-heartland-those-who-fought-bjps-citizenship-law-are-now-voting-for-development|access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Saikia|first=Arunabh|date=27 March 2021|title=Interview: Sanjib Baruah on Assam elections, identity politics and the 'cash-transfer state'|work=[[Scroll.in]]|url=https://scroll.in/article/990541/interview-sanjib-baruah-on-assam-elections-identity-politics-and-the-cash-transfer-state|access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> ''[[The Wire (India)]]'';<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bose|first=Tapan Kumar|date=27 September 2018|title=The Economic Basis of Assam's Linguistic Politics and Anti-Immigrant Movements|work=[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]|url=https://thewire.in/politics/the-economic-basis-of-assams-linguistic-politics-and-anti-immigrant-movements|access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> and ''[[Al Jazeera English]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ameen|first=Furquan|date=25 March 2021|title='Stress on Hindu identity': BJP hate campaign in poll-bound Assam|work=[[Al Jazeera English]]|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/25/stress-on-hindu-identity-bjp-hate-campaign-in-poll-bound-assam|access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
* 2021 ICAS Book Prize, Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the Non-Specialist Reader Accolade, from the International Convention of Asia Scholars<ref name="SUP 2020">{{cite web |title=In the Name of the Nation |url=https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29094&promo=S22XAHA-FM |website=Stanford University Press |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref>

==Notes==
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== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
* {{cite AV media|last1=Baruah|first2=Sanjib|author2=Rebecca|date=27 November 2008|title=Sanjib Baruah Interview part 1
|location=[[Heidelberg University]], Germany|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0oys48Wr5w|url-status=live
|archive-date=27 January 2022|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/F0oys48Wr5w|via=[[YouTube]]}}

== External links ==
* {{Cite web|title=Sanjib Baruah Books|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Sanjib+Baruah%22|website=[[Google Scholar]]}}
* [https://www.thehindu.com/books/the-anxiety-of-incompleteness-an-extract-from-sanjib-baruahs-in-the-name-of-the-nation-india-and-its-northeast/article30819834.ece The anxiety of incompleteness: An extract from Sanjib Baruah's ''In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast''] (''The Hindu'', February 15, 2020)

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